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• Several sites on
different levels
• A small, windowless
room behind the
statue was essentially
a safe for the
offerings made to the
goddess.
D. “The Education of all
Greece”
• Prior to beginning
their cure, the
supplicants were
brought to these
bathing areas to
purify themselves.
God from below and above the earth
came together to heal body and
mind.
• After being bathed,
patients were taken to
sleeping quarters, given a
sedative, and told the gods
would visit their dreams
and give them instruction.
• Athenian Treasury
memorializing their
victory at Marathon
• Munn, Mark. The Mother of the Gods, Athens, and the Tyranny of
Asia: A Study of Sovereignty in Ancient Religion. University of
California Press, 2006,